craftiness

A couple of home craft projects I have completed recently: This cabinet is located above our toilet, and since the doors would never stay ...

advent season

We are now in the midst of Advent season, and I am slowly beginning to feel like I have a hold on things. After a whirlwind Thanksgiving wee...

chickens in the closet

Yesterday afternoon I was preoccupied with giving kids baths, washing dishes, doing laundry... all the usual Monday activities. When the UPS...

insight from margaret

Margaret: (playing with plastic animals) Seals like acorns, too. Me: Maybe. But I think most seals like to eat fish. Margaret: Fish are s...

terrific twos to thrilling threes

Margaret is currently sleeping in and recovering from a weekend full of birthday festivities. The big family celebration was on Saturday and...

why work

These quotes were included in the sermon on Sunday, from the "Why Work?" essay by Dorothy Sayers in her book Creed or Chaos. &quo...

blessing box

Ever since I can remember my family has made an annual blessing box. At some point during the time that we lived in Columbia, while my dad w...

morning chores

mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall!

Home remodeling project: knocking down the kitchen wall. Part 1. I had a hard time finding before pictures of this rather repressive wall...

the art of walking

I know this wobbly, barely-in-control, teetering walk phase will pass all too quickly. Hopefully this means that I will soon not have to...

the parrot chair

This week's project: reupholstering the parrot chair (finally). I found a lot of things in our backyard shed as I cleaned it out this ...

painting pumpkins

Margaret fell in love with the pumpkins displayed prominently all over Wal-mart during our last grocery shopping expedition. I wasn't ex...

stayin' alive

Margaret and William are my entertainment. You don't need television when you have these two around. Which is good, because we don't...

our little man

Little Pard turned one recently and we hosted a birthday party for him last weekend. Complete with both sides of relatives (everyone except ...

a mom's eye view

farm fresh

My recent hiatus from the blogging world hasn't been due to lack of postable material. Unfortunately our internet was completely uncoope...